Her investigation, initially into the pirate activity, had turned up a shadowy plot involving several mega-corps, huge sector-spanning corporations wi...h more assets than most planetary governments.Needing help, but with no Agency assets in place, she had contacted one of her trainers at the Citadel, off the records. That contact had given her the name of a retired Union Marine and allowed her to hire mercenaries to help her sneak on to a mining planet in the LeMare system, and into more trouble. He toppled over the side and the boat continued, but Sue had turned toward them to keep them from broadsiding us. With Carl using the remote on the lamp to keep it directed at the boat, Steve and I kept pouring round after round into the boat and at any moving target we saw. The boat went past us doing probably close to twenty knots and just kept on going. It was possible there was no one on board capable of operating it.I had Carl sweep the water around our boat to make sure there wasn't. "Moments later Emma appeared. "Ooh, Randy, you do look dashing!" she exclaimed and gave him a quick kiss. "You'll bowl herself over. Don't worry. She'll be down in a minute. She's just taking a few deep breaths."Indeed Zoë appeared in the doorway almost immediately and stood there looking uncharacteristically apprehensive. Randy was struck dumb and could only stare at her. She was breathtakingingly lovely. Her dark hair was piled on the top of her head and accentuated her swan-like neck which. I don’t know . . .” “He told me he had sex with you. Is that true?” Ruh roh. I gripped her thigh. Feeling the muscle tense slightly in return, I eased up and began smoothing her leg with my hand. “Yes,” I acknowledged, “we had sex a couple times recently. Please don’t make too big an issue of it. We’ve stopped. It was, I was, wrong.” Wasn’t I? “I really like how it feels when you rub me, Mrs. Shepherd. It’s nicer than Chad or other boys poking me. Did sex with him feel good?” It’s becoming.